This Sunday, Paris said goodbye to the footballer who has most marked the history of the French league. The Princes’ Park has said goodbye to his, Kylian Mbappe (Bondy, Seine Saint Denis, 1998), who played his last game this Sunday with the PSG shirt before signing for Real Madrid. He did it against Toulouse and the prodigy’s goodbye was amidst whistles and some applause, a goal and a defeat for his team.
Mbapp still has three games left with PSG, but This was the last one in the Princes Park. On Friday he officially announced his departure from the club on social media. His contract ends on June 30, he could have renewed for another season, but he decided not to. I communicated this to the club’s president, Nassrr Al Khelafi, last February.
“I wanted to tell everyone that this is my last year at PSG. I am not going to renew. I will end my adventure in a few weeks. I will play my last game at the Parc des Princes on Sunday,” he said in a video last Friday. a few days after PSG was eliminated from the Champions League and two days after their last match at the Parque de los Príncipes.
Before starting the match, the radical fans of the Auteuil fund displayed an image with Mbapp half-length surrounded by laurels and lit red flares. The player went to greet them and thank them for the gesture.
Macron pressures
As the French press points out, very measured, “in all probability” he will be part of the Real Madrid squad. It won’t be official until the Champions League final. PSG has tried to retain the footballer. Even the French president, Emmanuel Macron, has done it, who already pressured Mbapp two seasons ago, when there was speculation about his departure to Real Madrid.
Thursday, Macron said he had “put all the pressure” on his new club (without mentioning it) to allow him to play with the French team during the Olympic Games in Paris this summer. “I’m counting on Real Madrid to release Kylian for the Olympic Games so that he can come play with the French team,” said Macron on Mbapp.
French football prodigy, Mbapp has been the most precocious of all athletes. He joined Monaco in 2013 and quickly aroused the interest of the big clubs. He won his first league with Monaco, he is the one who has been recognized the most times with the award for the best player in the league, the youngest scorer in the first division and the youngest to win a competition. Mbapp arrived at PSG in exchange for 180 million euros, the second highest signing in football history.
The earliest, without Champions
With a Cameroonian father, he grew up and learned to play football in Bondy, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Paris. His departure hurts. Because Mbapp in France is much more than a footballer. He is a symbol and a guide for many young people from the neighborhood who see an example in him. After seven years at PSG, he has won five league titles, more than 300 games and has been the top scorer in the French league five seasons in a row.
His farewell, despite everything he has represented for the French league and the Parisian club, has been bittersweet. No party or farewell from the club. His thorn in the side: not having managed to win a Champions League with PSG. The team was eliminated last Tuesday against Borusia, which is the club that will face Real Madrid, its new team, in the final on June 1. Mbapp already won a World Cup with France in 2018 and was on the verge of repeating in 2022.
“Game to make history and I always said that I wanted to make history in France, in the capital of my country, in my city,” he said when he was named best player in the history of PSG. For Luis Enrique, PSG coach: “He is a legend of the club, a player who has given everything.”
2024-05-12 22:13:16
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